The boy's name is not being released because of his age. Christian said his attorney is expected to surrender him to juvenile detention.

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies on Jan. 29 were dispatched to a Birmingham area hospital where teen victim's mother had taken her for evaluation after she told her mother she had been sexually assaulted at school. The alleged assault happened in October 2011.

The victim's mother, Valencia Weston, told The Birmingham News she noticed her daughter begin to withdraw in November. She began to eat very little and sleep a lot. Weston repeatedly questioned her behavior, but said her daughter insisted nothing was wrong. In January, she said, the depression went from bad to worse when she noticed signs of self-mutilation with her daughter.

Friends and family held an intervention and found out about the attack. The teen told her mom that she had lost her cell phone on Oct. 5, 2011 and a teacher gave her permission to go look for it during class. As she was passing the boy's bathroom, an attacker pulled her inside and raped her. Video surveillance cameras from the school show the suspect pulling the victim into the boys' restroom.

The boy was suspended from school after a disciplinary hearing held in January.

Story updated at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, with revised age for rape suspect based on new information from sheriff's office.